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The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer

Harvard Business Review

These three change accelerators are what lie behind today''s avalanche of business transformation, and they are directly affecting the roles of CIO and CTO. And, just as the CIO''s role needs to change, so too does the CTO''s—from Chief Technology Officer to Chief Transformation Officer.

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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

Months of investigation by a cyber consulting firm finally determined the source of the vulnerability to Azotrope’s network: a combination printer/fax machine in their testing and QA area that engineers regularly used to fax lunch orders to a local Chinese restaurant. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? An excerpt is below.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

. “It’s easier to understand the consequences of a change if you’re making lots of little steps,” observes Bryan Stevenson, CIO of on-demand software company Catalant. Maximize engineering productivity. And that satisfaction leads to a more attractive work environment in a competitive talent market.

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The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. You produce growth engines with calculated bets, not “wild-ass gambles.” You do not work for the CEO, or alongside the CTO, CIO, and CFO. The candidate is someone with a passion for taking calculated risks. ” You believe anything is possible.

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Is Your Organization Ready for Total Digitization?

Harvard Business Review

As the drive toward increased digitization continues, enterprises have to get a handle on this total digitization — and corporate CIOs have to step up to the challenge. At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. CIOs Must Lead Outside of IT.

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How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

Harvard Business Review

In collaborations systems, for instance, don''t overly engineer processes so that they constrain a system''s ability to adapt. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs). IT management'

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